The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
IFC Midnight | Release Date: October 7, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
17
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
3
Negative:
16
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83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanOct 5, 2011
Far more grotesque than the first Human Centipede - in fact, The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) could be the sickest B movie ever made. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. MusettoOct 7, 2011
Sick, disgusting and vile. It's also demonically funny, stylish and ingenious. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnOct 2, 2011
Like the original, the most shocking aspect comes from the revelation that Six can actually tell a story. Read full review
60
EmpireKim NewmanOct 31, 2011
The Human Centipede gets longer (how long before it becomes The Human Millipede?) but the shocks will be familiar to anyone who enjoyed the first film. The 180 seconds or so of cuts needed to get it past the BBFC open up some plot holes but won't sweeten the pill for everyone else. Read full review
50
SlateDaniel EngberOct 9, 2011
I'll say this for Human Centipede 2: Tom Six has done the impossible. He's created a sequel that's several orders of magnitude more vile, more nihilistic, and more repellant than the original. And he didn't even need to change the premise. Read full review
40
MovielineJen YamatoOct 6, 2011
You want to tell Six that yes, we get it already. But then subtlety isn't exactly his thing. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenOct 7, 2011
Six has in essence backed himself into a rhetorical corner, leaving as perhaps the only option for his next stunt something in which the filmmaker Tom Six winds up with his mouth surgically attached to his own anus. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckOct 2, 2011
Whatever gothic originality the first Human Centipede possessed is altogether lacking in this sorry follow-up. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsOct 5, 2011
The first Human Centipede had audacity on its side. Human Centipede II has only excess. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineRichard LarsonOct 2, 2011
The desire to eat someone's ass is almost always superficial; there's no thought of sustenance, and more sophisticated pleasures are usually imminent. Not so with The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence). Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovOct 5, 2011
All of this is fair "can you take it?" territory, but in he end you find yourself wondering where Nineties-era German cinema-transgressor Jörg Buttgereit is, and when he might deign to make "Nekromantik 3." As for Human Centipede 2, well, frankly it kind of sucks ass. And we mean that literally. Read full review
20
Time OutJoshua RothkopfOct 4, 2011
The question remains: Exploitative films are a dime a dozen, but how low will two-faced art-film distributor IFC go? Read full review
20
VarietyRobert KoehlerOct 3, 2011
More boring than stomach-churning, the film nevertheless contains scattered scenes and sequences so far beyond the tolerance of the squeamish that it can't be overstated. Read full review
12
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanOct 6, 2011
There really is no other movie on Earth quite like it. And that's including "The Human Centipede: First Sequence," the 2009 horror film on which this dismal, nauseating and yet bizarrely artful sequel is based. Read full review
10
The New York TimesAndy WebsterOct 6, 2011
In place of novelty we have dank interiors (shades of "Saw") and black-and-white photography (à la "Eraserhead"). Still missing is that lingering subtext, leaving only a lurid, splattery wallow in grime, blood and excrement. Read full review
10
Boxoffice MagazineTodd GilchristOct 2, 2011
Nasty and over the top, The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) feels like a horror movie that hates horror fans. Read full review
0
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisOct 13, 2011
Really, all Six is going for, with the generous application of both hardware supplies to the skin and feces to the camera, is a tired commentary on his shallow talents: They're excremental. Read full review
0
SalonAndrew O'HehirOct 9, 2011
What's really depressing is that some viewers may be deluded into thinking there's something of substance in "Centipede II," when it's more like a DC Comics version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's notorious "Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom," with the sweeping condemnation of Western culture stripped out and the mean-spiritedness cranked to 11. If you want to check this out for a stomach-turning giggle, don't let me stop you. But please, let's not pretend it means more than that. Read full review
0
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertOct 9, 2011
The film is reprehensible, dismaying, ugly, artless and an affront to any notion, however remote, of human decency. Read full review
0
Rolling StonePeter TraversOct 6, 2011
The film is in black-and-white so the gore doesn't spray quite as colorfully. But you'll still puke up a storm. Not so much at the movie, whose shock value wears off quicky, but at Six, who seems to hate himself almost as much as his audience. Masochists will give the movie a thumbs-up, as long as their thumb isn't already up their ass. Read full review
0
Village VoiceKarina LongworthOct 4, 2011
It's perhaps the sequel we deserve. But that doesn't mean this dumb, blunt follow-up - both more unspeakably grotesque and less scary than the first film - is worth sitting through. Once Six's conceptual project becomes clear, his escalating audience-mocking torture is increasingly pointless. Read full review
0
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinOct 3, 2011
The movie is a reductio ad absurdum, a sick joke taken to extremes, beginning with a goof on the notion that horror movies inspire copycats and ending with a test to determine whether some people will watch anything. Read full review
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